Potty Training Success! Hooray!

So, it's been a week now and as of today we are done with the training. Cole only had accidents during the first 24 hours and was going to the potty on his own the second morning of training! Today marks the final step - he's now doing number 2 on his own and get this - he takes the toilet brush and cleans the toilet after he's done (this is after he's flushed) so that it's totally clean for the next person. How sweet is that, right?

Looking Out a Window

We started potty-training Cole yesterday and it was a really, really rough first day. No matter how strict I was about following a schedule he just kept going on 'off' times (usually while I was getting Sophie or changing Sophie). He peed twice in the front room right in front of the big window and once in the tv room (thank you God for hardwood floors). Anyway, so yesterday was rough. So rough in fact that last night he told me I needed to share the Mother's Day crafts he'd brought home from school with daddy.

Today has been better. We had an incident at a friends' house but we both stayed calm and just changed the wet clothes out for dry and moved on. Then we went to lunch at 'the big W' or Wendy's. We were sitting near a window and suddenly he got up and went over to it. Now, keeping in mind what he did each time he was near our big window yesterday I immediately sprung into action, "What's going on? Cole? Cole, are you peeing? Do you need to go to the bathroom? Cole?"

He turned his head slightly in order to meet my anxious/frantic/harried gaze and said, "I'm just looking out the window." Sometimes looking out the window really is just looking out the window. Good to know.

Moments ago he sprung from his seat and ran into the bathroom and peed. All.on.his.own. And here is where you see myself and Scott leaping up in the stands cheering and whooping and doing handstands and summersaults. We're not in the clear yet but we can see the clearing.

Dusting off the blog

It's been so long since we last updated the blog. I've gotten in the habit of noting anything memorable or timely on Facebook and Scott, well, he's just uber busy. Today I took the kids to the park for a morning playdate. It's been so nice to return to these park playdates! Cole met up with a friend from school who also recently added a baby sister to his family. Sophie is a couple months older than that little bitty but they're already really interested in each other. Cole and D. tore around the park and ran up and down the equipment at lightning speed. After that they both led the way to the little kid park where they were content to cook and dig and just play in the sand. Sophie went on the swings for the second time in her life and was full of smiles until the camera phone came out! She loves being in motion and chuckles when the wind blows on her face.

We have misplaced our cord to download pics from the camera but as soon as it's recovered we'll post lots of new pics for everyone to enjoy.

Happy Spring!